Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest example of comic impressionism in our literature." He sniffs at Dickens' "Bravery" in championing social reforms, says his dragons were papier-mâché bugaboos: "He was one of those reformers who attack with public opinion behind them, and are rewarded with an increase in their wealth and popularity. He was not one of those reformers . . . who run counter to public opinion and are put in prison and ruined." Kingsmill states his whole case in one arresting comparison when he calls Charlie Chaplin "the Dickens of the 20th Century...
Federal Courtroom, Pittsburgh, Feb. 20--The long-hidden personal wealth of Andrew W. Mellon was revealed today as more than $97,000,000 (M), not including the other millions which he holds in such huge corporations as the Aluminum Company of America and the Gulf Refining Company...
...world, so long as he gets what he considers a fair deal from the powers that be. He isn't getting anywhere near what he considers his due; he hasn't since 1929. It is only natural that he should reach for such bromides as the share-the-Wealth plan or the Townsend plan. No amount of explaining that, for instance, the economic system cannot possibly raise such tremendous annual sums as Townsend offers the old duffers, will destroy for the average man the illusion that bread is being taken out of his mouth. He remains an ardent advocate...
...Zion's Herald's cover was a proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863.* In this, one of at least three calls to prayer uttered by President Lincoln, he reminded the nation that "we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God." Indeed, wrote the President, "may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins...
...percent devaluation of the dollar, the value of his factory in dollars will increase. He will pay a huge capital gains tax on the increase. Yet he will not have increased his real holdings by one cent. By the amount of the levy, his share of the nation's wealth will be directly reduced...